Avast Versions Releases

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  2. Krusty

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    Seeing how I have a week to consider how I deal with the Macrium bug, I reinstalled avast about 2 hours ago and just noticed that streaming updates stopped my time at 9:15 pm. That's near enough to an hour ago. Not too worried at this point, I know it's happened before.

    Edit: I just restarted my machine and received an update so it may be just something on this machine. Monitoring...
     
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    My post was a question not an affirmation.
     
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    Are all of you running the firewall? I tested it out here on a machine at work but it broke connectivity in Outlook to my Exchange server.
     
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    i am running the firewall and i did not have any issues with outlook at all. you can always add it as an exception if needed.
     
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    Gotcha. It also slowed down logging into my domain. Guess I need tweaks for it.
     
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    Manually running Macrium Reflect does indeed work. Thanks guys! :)

    Because the latest version of Norton stinks I am happily installing avast back on my machines.
     
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    This story is titled "Avast Free Antivirus 2016" but the RSS feed said 2017 and it was posted 14th February 2017, so...

    http://au.pcmag.com/avast-free-antivirus-2015/25820/review/avast-free-antivirus-2017

     
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    Your question answered my question, the failure to detect Eicar saved as a document is by design, ie in default configuration.

    In summary I am thanking you for your question even though it was not an affirmation to my question :D
     
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    Wow really? Symantec is that bad now?

    What settings are you running your Avast at Krusty?
     
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    It has a major issue forgetting to automatically run Live Update and scans. Symantec are aware and are currently looking into it.
    Pretty much default, except I've enabled scanning for PUPs and have scheduled a daily quick scan. I did have to exclude HMP.A but so far that is the only false positive.

    Not bad so far.

    Oh, I changed CyberCapture to Let me decide.
     
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    Gotcha. Thanks for the information!

    Cheers!
     
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    Anyone running Avast Free 2017 with Win XP? If so, how's your experience been?
     
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    A work-around for the Macrium Reflect bug:

    http://forum.macrium.com/FindPost10821.aspx

    https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=196883.msg1368562#msg1368562
     
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    On the Avast forum someone posted that there is a new build. I currently have 17.1.2286 build 17.1.3394.0 and the newer build is 17.1.3394.42 .The internal updater is not offering this newer build. Is anyone else seeing it? ChangeLog?

    I'm still seeing the problem with the Full Scan where no progress is displayed - it stays 0%...To my mind this is a serious bug.
     
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    Thanks for confirming :thumb:
     
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    What Avast do you have?
    My Avast Premier says: Current Version 17.1.2286 (Build 17.1.3394.0) , Release date: 07-02-17

    The screenshot from Avast Free (clubhouse1) : Current Version 17.1.2286 (Build 17.1.3394.44), Release date: 07-02-17
     
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    I'm using Avast Free and the Update page say 17.1.2286 (Build 17.1.3394.0) release date 2/7/2017
     
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    I received that build some time yesterday. If you still haven't received it you might try a restart and see if that does the trick for you.
     
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    seems like you are correct. i have now restarted 3 system and all were at the .42 after the restarts
     
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    Not in my case.
    3 restarts and build 17.1.3394.0 remains.
    In order to get the build 17.1.3394.42 I had to run the AvEmUpdate.exe
     
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    interesting. so far for me every system was updated after a restart
     
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